This ubeer cool shirts have been designed by Kentaro“ANI” Fujimoto (Nendo Graphixxx). Now I just wait that SEGA will team up with Cospa and release a 3D (not digital) version!

On Modellismo Hobby Media you can find a collection of uber geek Japanese advertisements of electronic toys and gadgets from the 60s and 70s. This is the first time I see the  BANDAI LSI SPEEDGUN (I just found it onsale on Yahoo Auctions) and the DIGITAL LUPIN from EPOCH!

Nice!!

iPAd is already on sale in Japan but it got different features than the US version: aiPAD is produced by Awajitec and is a diaper, which has 2 lines of aluminium, can be connected by clip with a small sensor unit. When the diaper soaked, the sensor notifies it via radio waves. It eases some burden of family and caretakers who support elderly. It has beein introduced at a health care conference in 2004.

via AsiaJin

"Old illulstration of Mario's childhood and growing up. His real name is Mario Michelangelo Antonioni, he was born in small town in North Italy, his parents worked for Olivetti and Fiat, he went to Rome by hiself to go to actor's school, after graduration he couldn't find good job for a while but finally he passed the Nintendo's game character..." via Watashi no Tokyo
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My old friends Quentaro "Nendo Graphixx" Ani and Terada (Omodaka) has been the guest of SPEEDKING RADIO: the only underground Tokyo music radio show out there!
Here is a video of SpeedKing "style"...
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Mousou Controller from Bandai let's you play Street Fighter II, Xevious and Family Stadium with you imagination!! More realistic than any next gen console!! 

Nice!! ^_^
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Artifacts from the future...
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From 1978...
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From 1979...
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Today, Castrol, offical sponsor of South Africa 2010 FIFA World Cup, showcased in Japan the first Engine driven Free Kick machine designed like a Rbotos from Japanese animation!

The machine recorded an amazing, speed of 206 km/h.
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In june a new Evangelion bicycle will be released in Japan at 98.000 Yen (Around 1000$). Ther ewill be two differente version produced: Typer R (white) and Type A (Red).

Wow! LEGO has finally discovered the collectable toys market (I fear they never heard of companies like Medicom Toy) and, in June, the Danish blocks empire  will release the first line of Collectable minifigures. [via Brickset ]
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Great minimal techno set posted by Yako Flapper 3 one of the minds behind the cult VJ software Motion  Dive Tokyo released by Roland last century! at 2:31 in the video stream starts the live of my friends JulieHally unit: GREAT 8BIT techno show!! I think that putting a chiptune live after 2 hours of a techno DJ set is simply perfect to get avarage clubber into this music!!
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During the TOY Forum 2010 Takara Tomy Arts presented a new series of solar-powered miniature "GAME & WATCH" keychains! These retrogame masterpieces will cost 1000 Yen and will be out in march! The first models are CHEF, PARACHUTE and OCTOPUS. The only downside is that these miniatures are not playable (you can only change the speed of the "games" with a button).  ME WANT!!

via gigazine

UPDATE: Super blogger Serkan Toto from Crunch Gear discovered these keyholders 4 days ago and wrote a way better post than mine so click here to read his post! Damn I'm getting slow... maybe I'm going to die soon...
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RTR Bomb System

Quanum’s R/C bomb system is plug-n-play and really easy to install on your RC model airplane. Simply connect the included servo wire to a spare channel on your radio and stick the bomb’s release pod to your RC airplane. It’s that simple!

The R/C bomb system splits in half to carry any payload you require and comes with an impact protector for added safety. The system includes a bomb release pod which securely holds the bomb in place and ensures a positive release every time!

I love Japan!!! via movapic.com

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Cult blogger Brian @Kotaku wrote an interesting post about the circulation numbers for domestic video games magazines released byThe Japanese Magazine Publishers Association.

Kind of funny how the "Association" forgot GameLabo that with its 200.000 copies is the second best selling videogame magazine in Japan (and it even runs my very own monthly column ^_^)! Another interesting missing title is Tech Gian (the best selling magazine about hentai videogames) published by Enterbrain with a circulation of over 100.000 copies...

Title: Weekly Famitsu
Publisher: Enterbrain
Circulation: 500,000 <-- Really?! ROTFL (real sales are less than half but the magazine is still influential as it's read, not bought, in thousands of Convenience stores around the Country)

Dengeki Nintendo DS
ASCII Media Works
160,000

Famitsu PSP+PS3
Enterbrain
150,000

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Touchscreen Game Boy Advance is Really Just a Fancy iPhone Case via Albotas
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It's January so it's again time to head to Kichijouji (Tokyo) for the Fami Mode party!!! My osusume is OMODAKA (fareastrecording.com) probably the best Japanese underground live act out there (produced by my old friend Terada who is the producer of several Playstation games soundtracks)!
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On 30 december 2009 Italian government issued a decree about "Private copy TAX" that extends an old tax on some recordable media to every digital consumer products able to store music or video such as iPods, Hard Disks, computers, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, DVD recorders, mobile phones...

So from this year Italian videogamers will have to pay an extra 6.44 Euros of tax when they buy a Playstation 3 or XBOX 360 with a 120GIGA HD...

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DS Porting of the cult doujin shooter!

Rom download: TouhouDS_0.9.7z

There are many universal remote controls out on the market. None of them have the features of a GameBoy Advance fittet with a little infrared transeiver and a functional program. It features a grafical interface with customable buttons. The signal information can be sampled from the original remote control. One key feature is that it is possible to programm up to two commands on one button
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Ultima Online Japanese ADs via kanasoku.blog82.fc2.com
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Wow! Enterbrain is finally bringing RPG Tsukuru to Nintendo DS!! With the flash cards boom I think this time this "game maker" can fiunally get the exposure and success it missed back in the 90s... Let's create our doujin RPG!!
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Super blogger Serkan Toto posted on Crunch Gear a cool new Japanese robot called Jo Zero developed by Himeji Softworks!

TeenageEngineering from 14 to 17 January 2010 will exhibit the uber geek micro synth + controller OP1 at Namm Show 2010!

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Kotaku Japan posted about 8Bit Love: a doujinshi about retrogames toys and gadgets produced by 3 of my best friends in Japan: Oikawa (sernior editor of the cult videogame magazine GameLabo), Mushia (from Gizmodo Japan) and the super kawaii photographer Julie (aka Amano Ai). This book has been released on 31th december during the winter Comiket 77.
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Amano Ai guest in Onegai Ranking Japaense TV show!!

On 21th Janaury in Japan will take place Fuck 1 GP: the craziest motor competition in the World! There will be 6 Japanese porno stars competing with Acume cars. Thanks to a special system more the girls come more the car is fast... It's a good idea to solve the future of automotive isn't it?! Down here there is the project of these cars I found today on Soft On Demand Magazine (February 2010 issue).

During the Comiket 77 at the RSK booth I spotted the prototype of the Alice Soft Itasha Die Cast model car that will be relaesed in april by Kyosho.